Had the usual Tuesday outage today for database maintenance. Nothing too exciting to report about that except we continue to have progress getting new server mork on line as secondary replica (and hopefully someday primary master). MySQL is running on it, and all the tables are being populated as I type this.

A note about the "old junk" I mentioned yesterday. I was talking about real junk (gutting parts servers, shipping boxes, etc.). We still have the E450s that were our various servers during the "classic" phase of SETI@home. We keep talking about auctioning those off but I doubt any of us will ever have the time to coordinate that. Maybe we'll donate them to the Smithsonian.

- Matt

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I am doing the work on the shirts, so what the heck, I could do the "Junk" too.
Instead of an auction, it should be a set price on first come first basis.

Start high, then we could go lower, if there are no takers. Postage would not be part of the price. It is just not worth the manpower involved to make it an aution process.

For persons filing a US tax return, it would not qualify as a write off, but the powers at Berkeley maybe willing to give you a star.

One possibility is a silent auction. Anyone that wants can submit a bid and at the end of X days, the winner is announced. They can either come by the office to pick it up, or pay for shipping.
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Now 10 years into SETI, the Berkeley team auctions its legacy systems.
Just imagine owning the first computer setup of the project that just might find extra terrestrial life!

Add a certificate of authenticity with autographs of the Berkeley-crew, and hey you might just end up with enough money to get that 1Gb line up and running :D
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Normally I don't care much because of the 'PC task list'.
Maybe everyday one look whether the PC make 'errors' or other 'stupid' things.

I made an app mod/update in your vacation and after installation the 'PC task list' was disabled.
Yesterday I made some changes - and after again the 'PC task list' was disabled.. to now.
I think, I can't make changes at my PC.. ;-)

It'll be after every weekly maintenance, that the 'PC task list' and 'pending credit list' will be unavailable for a short or long time?

We keep talking about auctioning those off but I doubt any of us will ever have the time to coordinate that.

I had suggested doing this a year ago in the hardware donation thread as a way of raising funds for the project, an other idea I had was to offer them in trade to someone willing to donate fresh hardware.
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